Silicon Labs Wireless xG28 Explorer Kit for Amazon Sidewalk

Silicon Labs Wireless xG28 Explorer Kit for Amazon Sidewalk offers a small form factor, low-cost evaluation platform for the EFR32SG28 dual-band wireless SoC. The EFR32ZG28 SoC is an ideal device family for developing energy-friendly connected IoT applications. The Explorer Kit is designed to demonstrate and prototype IoT applications for Amazon Sidewalk rapidly. The board arrives programmed with an out-of-the-box application ready to connect to the Amazon Sidewalk network, allowing demonstration of uplink/downlink over the Amazon Sidewalk network between the end device and the cloud.

The Silicon Labs xG28 Explorer Kit features a USB interface, an on-board SEGGER J-Link debugger, two user-LEDs/buttons, with support for hardware add-on boards via a mikroBUS™ socket and a Qwiic® connector. The hardware add-on support enables developers to build and prototype applications employing a virtually endless combination of off-the-shelf boards from MikroE, SparkFun, Adafruit, and Seeed Studios.

Features

  • User LEDs and push buttons
  • 20-pin 2.54mm breakout pads
  • mikroBUS socket
  • Qwiic connector
  • SEGGER J-Link on-board debugger
  • Virtual COM port
  • Packet Trace Interface (PTI)
  • USB-powered

Applications

  • Development of Amazon Sidewalk devices
  • IoT devices

Specifications

  • 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M33 with 78MHz maximum operating frequency
  • 1024kB flash and 256kB RAM

Hardware Layout

Silicon Labs Wireless xG28 Explorer Kit for Amazon Sidewalk

Block Diagram

Block Diagram - Silicon Labs Wireless xG28 Explorer Kit for Amazon Sidewalk

Power Topology

Application Circuit Diagram - Silicon Labs Wireless xG28 Explorer Kit for Amazon Sidewalk

Connectors

Schematic - Silicon Labs Wireless xG28 Explorer Kit for Amazon Sidewalk
Inilathala: 2025-06-17 | Na-update: 2025-10-16